Alistair Cooke's America by Alistair Cooke
79.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
Alistair Cooke traces the history of America from the eve of discovery by European explorers to modern times: the young nation fighting for independence and forging its identity; the indomitable spirit of those who set out to tame the West; and the fate of slaves and their masters.
Tarts with Tops On or How to Make the Perfect Pie by Tamasin Day-Lewis
59.95 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
A beautifully written, exquisitely produced celebration of the pie - its most classic recipes and modern interpretations. Pies are the business. You can dress them up or dress them down. Make them classic or modern, savoury or sweet, shroud them in butter crisp pastry or top them with creamy potato. ...Show more
Good Tempered Food by Tamasin Day-Lewis
69.95 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
This text explores quiet, unhurried, unchaotic cooking to be savoured with its natural accompaniments - conversation, music and a glass of wine. This is old-fashioned, slow cooking - the food we love to eat and cook with a new way to think about it.
Arabian Flavours - Recipes and Tales of Arab Life by Salah Jamal; Elfred Powell (translator)
34.03 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food | Reading Level: good
Recipes and Lessons from a Delicious Cooking Revolution by Alice Waters
12.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
A champion of organic, locally produced and seasonal food and founder of acclaimed Californian restaurant Chez Panisse, Alice Waters explores the simplest of dishes in the most delicious of ways, with fresh, sustainable ingredients a must, even encouraging cooks to plant their own garden. From orange an ...Show more
Love in a Dish and Other Pieces : Great Food by M. F. K. Fisher
12.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
M.F.K. Fisher's personal, intimate culinary essays are well-loved American classics, combining recipes with her anecdotes, reminiscences, cultural observations and passionate storytelling. Auden, Fisher saw eating as inextricably bound up with living well. Whether reflecting on an epic lunch served by a ...Show more
Slow Food by Carlo Petrini
38.95 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food | Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
Take a breath...Read slowly. How often in the course and crush of our daily lives do we afford ourselves moments to truly relish-to truly be present in-the act of preparing and eating food? For most of us, our enjoyment of food has fallen victim to the frenetic pace of our lives and to our increasing ...Show more
Hops and Glory: One Man's Search for the Beer That Built the British Empire by Pete Brown
49.99 NZD
Category: Wine, Beer and Spirits
India Pale Ale is pure gold in a glass: a semi-mythical beer that was specially invented, in the 18th Century, to travel half way around the world, through storms and tropical sunshine, and arrive in perfect condition for a long, cold drink on an Indian verandah. For the men and women of the British Raj ...Show more
Mum Knows Best by Jo Hanks
30.00 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
How do you save a curdled custard? How do you keep mice out of the home? How do you stop moths eating your woollens? How do you get chewing gum out of a five-year-old’s hair? Or get rid of his veruccas? And cure hiccoughs in a trice? The answers to all these every day dilemmas, and many, many more ...Show more
Heat by Bill Buford
39.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
An amateur's adventures as a kitchen slave, line cook, pasta-maker and apprentice to a butcher in Tuscany. Heat is the story of an amateur cook surviving - or, perhaps more accurately, trying to survive - in a professional kitchen. Until recently, Bill Buford was an enthusiastic, if rather chaotic, home ...Show more
Sacre Cordon Bleu by Michael Booth
37.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
Michael Booth has had his fill of celebrity chefs and their recipes. He wants to know how to cook, not just to follow recipes. So, he burns his cookery books and, together with his young family, heads for a new life in Paris - reasoning that, if anyone can be trusted to make food complicated, it's the F ...Show more